2022 Cardinals MLB Game 119 thread – Saturday, August 20 at Arizona

Wow….. back-to-back in game siestas……hope I don’t have some sort of sleeping disorder. 16-7 Birds your final. And what’s not to like about this JoJo Romero fellow? Wonder if he’s related to JoJo White in any fashion?

I wish Mo was as good in adding free agents, as trades. Other than the Ozuna trade which was disastrous, most of his trades have been good to great.

If not for Paul Goldschmidt, Pujols may win the NL player of the month.

After tatering up twice, Pujols’ long single to lead off the 6th was perhaps the hardest ball he hit all night. The game was tied 4-4 at that point and he attempted a SB to try to catch the DBacks napping and place himself into scoring position with no outs for the go ahead run. Well, he was CS, but what I’m driving at is that he’s obviously not playing simply to put up gaudy personal numbers in the final year of one of the all time greatest careers ever on record in the Big Leagues. Albert Pujols is still playing the game of baseball for a singular purpose. Pujols is playing to help his team to win. And that’s the primary reason he’s The Great Pujols.

Imagine when Nolan Gorman tells his grand kids that he was once called upon to PH for the Great Pujols and came thru with a 2 RBI base hit.

Funny Cardinals27! Yeah, I don’t get it. I’m well into my 50’s now and have never copped any siestas during Cardinals games before. Now it’s back-to-back games where I’ve zzz’d out. Maybe old age is finally setting in? If you guys see me start having beets, yams and rice pudding instead of Popeye’s apple cinnamon pies in my din-din delights, then we’ll know I’m about ready for the glue factory.

The last time Hicks was on the mound for a decent amount of innings was 2018. At some point the organization needs to decide the MiLB reps would be better spent on somebody who might reasonably be expected to be a reliable contributor. With the IL history its hard to figure how many option years he might have left.

The system has a few pitchers whose development path was garbled for one reason or another. Hudson is one and I don’t know what should be done or what the future holds. You can’t undo what has been done. Libby and Thompson are other examples.

KiKi C…….sweet, didn’t know that, Nyquist. JoJo looked great in his one inning of labor last night. He’s well on his way to making us forget all about Edmundo…….Sosa. See, I’m already struggling with Edmundo’s last name.